The 19th century battle between Nikolai Tesla’s alternating current (AC) and Thomas Edison’s direct current (DC) technologies had an undisputed winner. The vast majority of the world’s transmission ...

The demand for electricity is growing and that is set to increase over the coming years. The economies among the emerging nations continue to expand access to electricity while the desire to ...

31 July 2003 – Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD), Erlangen, Germany, has developed new control and protection technology for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission systems.

In this Perspective, Alexandre Oudalov, Manager of the Power Systems of the Future initiative at Hitachi Energy, argues that interconnected electricity networks are the true enablers of the ...

A view of the alternating current yard at the HVDC back-to-back converter station in Georgia. Siemens will upgrade India’s oldest high voltage direct current (HVDC) link, Vindhyachal, by installing ...

Prysmian Group announces that the milestone High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) underground cable system interconnecting France and Spain is ready for commercial operation, on the occasion of the ...